Vivien's predictions were right, to the dismay of Janus and everyone in the village. The next season was essentially a season of one calamity after the next. Summer had blurred before their eyes, the expected sunny weather was replaced by storm after storm. It ravaged the farms, flooded the irrigation systems, and gave the workers more work than they were accustomed to. The wind sprites that caused erratic weather patterns around the forest seemingly doubled overnight. Haruna, Cornelia, and the rest of the mages had their hands full in tracking them down and subduing them, but there was seemingly no end to their numbers. On any given day they were able to destroy up to twenty of the sprites, but they still managed to come back with more. This brought more frequent storms which unfortun

